Considering a Qt 5.6 dependency for plasma-workspace

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday, March 25, 2016 04:25:54 PM Martin Graesslin wrote:
>> On Thursday, March 24, 2016 5:31:21 PM CET Aleix Pol wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I'd like to suggest a Qt 5.6 dependency for plasma-workspace master
>> > (and maybe other repositories too).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > My personal interest is mostly because of the patch that drops KScreen
>> > dependency in plasmashell [1], but I still think it makes sense on
>> > other areas and it's unlikely that plasma 5.7 is going to ever be run
>> > under Qt 5.5 anyway (in fact, Plasma 5.6 won't be run under Qt 5.5
>> > either on most distributions, interestingly).
>>
>> As long as there is no Qt 5.6 bug fix release which doesn't block kded on
>> startup I suggest that we don't depend on Qt 5.6. We currently know it's
>> broken and completely unusable for us.
>>
>> Let's wait for the bug fix release and then depend on 5.6.1.
>
> +1, won't matter for a release anyway, and devs can switch at any time.
>
> Otherwise, yes, I'd love to get out of this limbo situation where we get
> reports of broken screen management from people running < Qt 5.6. That will
> actually make it possible to find out where kscreen is doing the wrong thing,
> right now it seems to react to spurious events through QScreen and writes out
> wrong configs.

Qt 5.6.1 doesn't seem to be a priority for TQC.

Still, I think we should take this step at some point, most distros
patched it anyway and people from us who compile it we get the patch
as well from the 5.6 branch.

It's not like we're offering any kind of safety keeping Qt 5.5 as a
dependency either, because we're talking about master here.

Aleix